This Week in Concert History - Celebrating Your Golden Years

[Yada]

All I've asked for in this thread is how people have cataloged their concert going for nearly 30 years and no one has answered me.

Bueller?

[bearman🐻]

3/28/1991 -- Cocteau Twins @ Riviera (Chicago)
3/25/1994 -- Urge Overkill w/ Eugenius @ the Tavern (American University)
3/27/1995 -- Shellac @ Black Cat
3/28/1997 -- Emmett Swimming @ 9:30 (back when I was working at the Club)
3/27/1999 -- Kill Hannah w/ the Cupcakes @ the Metro (Chicago)
3/23/2004 -- Saves the Day w/ Grandaddy @ 9:30
3/28/2004 -- The Sleepy Jackson @ Black Cat
3/24/2005 -- Interpol w/Blonde Redhead @ Sonar
3/25/2005 -- Interpol w/Blonde Redhead @ 9:30
3/26/2005 -- Interpol w/Blonde Redhead @ 9:30
3/27/2005 -- Queens of the Stone Age w/ Throw Rag @ 9:30
3/28/2007 -- Cold War Kids w/ Tokyo Police Club & Delta Spirit @ 9:30
3/26/2009 -- Primal Scream @ Trocadero
3/27/2009 -- Primal Scream @ 9:30
3/27/2010 -- AIR @ 4th & B (San Diego)
3/24/2011 -- Queens of the Stone Age @ Electric Factory (Philly)
3/24/2012 -- Bad Religion @ National Mall
3/22/2013 -- Bad Religion @ 9:30
3/23/2013 -- The Feelies @ Ottobar
3/27/2013 -- The Feelies @ 9:30
3/22/2014 -- Ex Hex @ Boot and Saddle (Philly)

[bearman🐻]

This is the thread for true music geeks.

partially.  it's also a dick measuring exercise...

Well, wouldn't the purpose of this entire board serve as that? I mean really...if we can't geek out about the fact that someone saw Hendrix or Nirvana or whatever, then we really are way too jaded and cynical for our own good.

[sweetcell]

Well, wouldn't the purpose of this entire board serve as that?

absolutely! i was just adding a bit of color

[rich_WDC]

Ely, Joe      3   23   1989   Bayou
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant (with Rusted Root opening)      3   23   1995   USAir Arena
The Magic Numbers3   23   2006   Nightclub 930
Jawbox      3   24   1994   Nightclub 930
BB King      3   24   1995   Warner
Zebra              3   24   2001   Jaxx
The Cult      3   24   2006   Nightclub 930
Fu Manchu      3   24   2007   Jaxx
Fatboy Slim      3   26   2005   Nightclub 930
Rob Zombie      3   26   2006   Nightclub 930
Lamb of God   3   26   2007   Nightclub 930
Bob Weir & Ratdog3   27   2006   Warner
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds      3   28   2012   Warner
Marillion      3   29   1992   Bayou

[bearman🐻]

Well, wouldn't the purpose of this entire board serve as that?

absolutely! i was just adding a bit of color

Now I want to see some bravado. Damn you!

[hutch]

This is a great thread... keep going guys..

nevermind the inevitable backlash


I would have loved to see the Van Halen show at the Cap Center in 1984...

a few years back i thought about starting a concert journal or something....i regret not having done so.....

[i am gay and i like cats]

i post, to start dialogue . . . i, succeeded.  i do enjoy this thread.  i just, found that little bit of trivia, to be inter,esting.

[hemisphire]

All I've asked for in this thread is how people have cataloged their concert going for nearly 30 years and no one has answered me.

Bueller?

Lost among the chaff.  I kept it in a spiral notebook until 1999, then created my own website where I add a page per year.  These days I also crosspost at setlist.fm.

[hemisphire]

3/25/91  The Pet Shop Boys  Tonight Show
3/22/95  Jimmy Page & Robert Plant/Rusted Root  US Air Arena
3/23/95  Jimmy Page & Robert Plant  US Air Arena
3/28/96  Collective Soul/Rust  Capital Ballroom
3/25/03  The Bobs  Barns of Wolf Trap
3/24/06  Getaway Car/Adam Richman  Jammin' Java
3/23/07  Snow Patrol/OK Go/Silversun Pickups  Bender Arena
3/24/07  Winterpills  Iota
3/26/07  Tommy Shaw & Jack Blades  Birchmere
3/22/08  Jim Boggia/Ruut  Coffee East
3/28/08  Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby  Johnny Mercer Theatre
3/28/09  Eddie From Ohio/Lucy Wainwright Roche  Rams Head
3/27/10  Mercy Creek  House Concert
3/24/11  Lucy Kaplansky/Mark Erelli  Barns At Wolf Trap
3/28/12  Van Halen/Kool & The Gang  Verizon Center
3/27/14  Red Molly/Mark Erelli  Barns At Wolf Trap

[Julian, Bespoke SEXPERT]

3/23/07  Snow Patrol/OK Go/Silversun Pickups  Bender Arena

I remember You Be Betty being all sorts of hyped about this show. Man, I wonder what happened to her...

[Bombay Chutney]

All I've asked for in this thread is how people have cataloged their concert going for nearly 30 years and no one has answered me.

Bueller?

Just a text file, really.  In the early 2000s I scanned all my old ticket stubs and made a list of all of the shows.  From that point onward I just kept adding new shows to the list.  Date/Bands/Venue/City.  Occasionally I'll remember an old show that I don't have cataloged and just lookup the info online and fill it in.  Unfortunately, many of the early shows I don't have a record of were old 9:30 gigs and local/hardcore shows for which I didn't buy tickets in advance, so I have no record of those. :-(

[grateful]

Promo ticket from their "Power" tour.  Came with backstage meet and greet, merch and a flashlight.  Seats were bleachers behind the band.  We were given cues for using the flashlight during the show.



Then again, it was Kansas...

[helicon1]

has anybody else noticed, that the majority of people who post in this thread, do not post anywhere else on the forum, for some, reason. maybe if life was a gigantic list of dates to remember, they would.

I'm a long time forum lurker going back to the early 00s. Not currently in the area and this seems like a fun exercise to remember some older shows. That's all. Guess I'll go back to lurking

[i am gay and i like cats]

this is what I do.  I just keep every single ticket of every single concert/comedy show/special movie/theatre performance I have ever gone to, starting with my very first two concerts when I was a wee lad, which were utwo zoo tv rfk, and pink Floyd division bell rfk.  I keep them in fully overstuffed envelopes marked 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,6 7, 8 . . . yeah I think I am on eight now.  and I go through them and read them and have nice memories from them.  that, is all.